A few days ago, Radar had an early excerpt from an interesting Star Mag story. You see, Anna Wintour hates Kim Kardashian. This hate-on has been going on for a while, but Wintour took it to the next level last year when one of Anna’s favorite men, Kanye West, began dating She Who Shall Never Be High-Fashion. Anna refused to extend an invitation to Kim to last year’s Met Gala, and sources claimed Anna openly snubbed Kim during New York Fashion Week last fall. Radar said that Anna was looking to ban Kim from this year’s Met Gala too, even though Kanye is set to perform at this year’s punk-themed event. Well, the print edition of Star had even more stuff, and it gets even better and more delusional:

“The Met Gala is $25,000 a ticket, but Kim refuses to buy her way in,” says a source.

That may change this year, since Kanye is set to perform at the May 6 soiree, which will have a punk theme and Kanye will surely be free to take Kim as his plus one.

While Kim should feel fortunate to simply attend the party, the reality starlet is pressing her luck and aiming for the ultimate Vogue approval: a cover pictorial!

“Kanye is practically begging Anna to make it happen,” explains the tipster, “but so far, his pleas haven’t worked. He might have a better shot if he offered an at-home feature with their baby.”

Though even that seems unlikely as Anna Wintour reportedly sniped to friends that Kim would grace her magazine’s cover “over her dead body.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

So, if I’m getting this right, Anna is all “Your girlfriend can buy a ticket if she really wants to come to the gala” and Kanye is all “Girl, imma let you finish, but Kim is the most fashionable girl in the whole world! Not only is she coming to the event, you’re gonna put her on the cover!!” So, while I think Nuclear Wintour is fighting a losing battle with the Met Gala, I think Anna is saving her strength for more important battles. Kim is going to the Met Gala, for sure. It’s May 6 – she’ll be seven months pregnant and by God, she will find some horribly tacky couture gown and it will be a disaster, but it’s happening and we need to accept it. But Wintour will NEVER, EVER allow Kim anywhere near Vogue. Never. Ever. Which is fine with me – I get tired of Kim’s magazine shoots. She’s not an interesting subject at all.

Someone mentioned the other day how Kim is the epitome of class. She’s right. She’s like American royalty. We should have national Kim day complete with daily viewings of her blockbuster porn tape. If by Vogue, you mean of Penthouse, and by cover you meant the back advertising pages, I concur.

You are kidding right? The name Marilyn Monroe and Kim Kraptrashian should NEVER EVER be uttered in the same sentence because one had talent and one does not. One oozed sex appeal on the big screen and in life and one just had sex and sold the video. Guess who?!

While I don’t disagree with her sentiment regarding Kim K, she is a notorious b-word – they don’t call her ‘Nuclear Wintour‘ for nothing. She’s gotten even more power-crazed since pulling off her fashion industry coup for Obama. Ambassador to London next, I guess. SRSLY??

Other sites are saying Kanye is begging Anna to give Kim the cover. Apparently she love Kanye for some reason but keeps on saying NO to him about Kim! If Anna caves and gives Kim a cover I swear here and now I will never buy another Vogue. God in all but one picture she has her mouth open again. So another day, another picture of Kim doing nothing. This is getting sad.

Kim does not belong on Vogue or Vanity Fair but lately these so called high class mags are lowering their standards … it seems anybody and everybody has a chance. I’ll bet that she will be there if Kanye pays enough $$$ and he will.

Please. If Wintour won’t give a Vogue cover to Victoria Beckham (who is usually impeccably dressed and now a credible fashion designer), there’s no way in hell she’ll give one to the tacky, dull, taste-and-charm-free Kardashian.

I’ll bet Kardashian will be prevented from attending the Met Ball. Really, can you imagine her there? It would be a mockery.

Team Anna here. I can’t help but notice that Kim is back at work less then a week after her baby scare. You would think she would get a couple of weeks off but then Kim just can’t stand the thought of not being papped it seems. We would never hear the end of Kim on Vogue. Kim 7 months pregnant in a horrible dress even when she isn’t pregnant she looks a mess anyway.

I had never heard of this vapid young woman before my son”s girlfriend would commandeer the tv to watch their show. She did used to be very attractive, with her dark good looks. But she’s looking more and more fake every month. Those lips. They make her look like all the other plastic celebrities. According to the book, “Office Politics”, it’s no longer simply about having talent, creativity and working hard, as Ms Wintour has always done. Climbing the ladder, self-promotion and creating a cult following is a skill, too. I cannot stand any of the Kardashians. They have become a parody of themselves.

To be fair, Wintour only got the spot because her powerful father saw that she wasn’t the brightest of his kids and decided that Vogue would be her job. Then Vogue was her job. She admits as much. But yes, Say No To Kim.

I see she is still taking mouth-breathing lessons from Kanye…. which automatically lowers their perceived IQ about 20 points. I wish the entire media would put a year long moratorium on Kim K/any K news articles.

It’s ok to use fillers while pregnant. Just no Botox, which she isn’t using, because she has photos showing her frowning, and that is the first time I have EVER seen that. Probably one reason she got the bangs – to cover her imperfect frown prone forehead.

I’m guessing she is also messing with the fillers so much, because it is ALL she can do.

I understand why Anna Wintour hates Kim . . .I just can’t fathom the love affair with Kanye West. She’s photographed sitting next to him at tons of fashion shows and events. Why?! He’s a low-rent thug with zero fashion sense — you hardly even see him in a nicely-cut suit. He’s on Kim’s level, for sure.

Mouth breathers gross me out too. And people who are constantly photographed with their mouths hanging open are horrible too. Worst offenders of this: Kim K, J-Lo, Melania Trump, the York Sisters, Lindsay Lohan.

Edit: I just looked at these photos of Kim again. Look at driving around with her mouth open! Wtf! She looks STOOPID.

ooh ,its punk themed this year ,will be fun to watch then,actually if i were anna ,i would let her attend this years punk themed just to see how ridiculous she would look ,i would ask her to incorporate fisnet and a pink mohawk as a must or else no entry

Alexa Chung, however vapid, famewhorey, and uninteresting, is a model. That puts her a few notches above Kim. Chung, at the very least works at her legit job, and is obviously somewhat respected in the modeling industry…while Kim is known for a sex tape and fake wedding/marriage.

Thank you. Chung and Lively are as dull, stupid and self-promoting as Kardashian, but you’re right: both have real jobs, however bad they are at them. Kardashian is just a complete zero who started out as Paris Hilton’s best bud and went on from there (sex tape, horrible reality show, fake wedding, laughable “singing and fashion career,” etc.).

Anna Wintour has spoken; No Vogue cover for Kim Kardashian. I can’t believe Kim started her career by making a sex video and now she wants to be acknowledged by the best and finest of society. Just because Kim has made boatloads of money doesn’t mean she is upper crust.

I was actually being kind when I said sex video. You are right,it is pretty much porn because she used it to advance her career and to make money just like any porn actor/actress would. What does Kim expect? To be knighted by Queen Elizabeth?

There is no way Kim will ever be on the cover of Vogue. She is the ANTITHESIS of what it means to be a Vogue cover girl. Putting her on the cover would bring Vogue down in the magazine hierarchy – Kim graces the cover of Star and US Magazine for the love of gahd! No way would Vogue risk losing their credibility over a woman who starred in a homemade sex tape. Was Paris Hilton ever on the cover of Vogue during the height of her fame?…

P.S. I rarely buy Vogue now because I feel as though it has gone down the drain the past decade or so. If Kim is put on the cover, I will NEVER buy Vogue again! Dramatic, but true .

Do you mean “She is the ANTITHESIS of what it *MEANT* to be a Vogue cover girl?” Because Actual Vogue Cover Girls were replaced with bland earnest PR-saturated over-exposed over-airbrushed non-models 2 long spoonfed decades ago. I think what you and I used to appreciate Vogue for has long been gone.

Before Wintour ran Vogue into the ground, it used to be a high fashion trend-SETTING art & lifestyle ~bible~. It had coffee table book status and content, with its high-end photographers, large(r) format, thick glossy paper stock.

I know the publishing industry is on a respirator, but Wintour’s style-impaired myopia has been toxic to this patient. Like you, I lament its demise.

ps. To answer your question, the Hilton sisters were often mentioned in the society pages of Vogue, but not ever featured as fashion ambassadors of any kind or on the cover.

Well said Lucy and lunamiel; A few points;
I too miss the supermodel era of the 80s/90s;
Second, the decline started 10-12 yrs ago even in the late 90s Giselle,Bridget Hall, Kirsty Hume,etc. could get a Vogue cover;
The end of the supermodel era killed the allure and opened the way for actresses and c-d listers; and
Big point – once conglomerates started buying the mags, and with their interests in tv/music/film, the fashion mags were turned into advertising extensions; Another example where commerce ruins art.
The NY modeling agencies haven’t helped themselves by signing way too many bland skeletons and not promoting the attractive ones they have.

I noticed Kim isn’t wearing her seatbelt, I’m thinking two reasons why: #1. She doesn’t want to wrinkle her fashion forward clothes. #2. She waiting for the extra long extension belt to arrive, so she can strap in her wide load……either way dumbass, Kim, buckle up, if not for your safety do it for your child.

Don’t worry, Kim will turn it into a whole “woe is me. Anna is so mean to me!” With her little pathetic baby voice. But I 100% see Kim and Kris Jenner trying to victimise themselves to try and force Anna’s hand. What they fail to realize is Anna is so much of a bitch that she won’t care.

I don’t think Kim will show up to the Met Gala. She’ll end up making some comment about how she didn’t go somewhere it was obvious she’s not wanted and try to publicly call out Anna only to realize that Anne Wintour can in fact ruin her life and some of Kim’s endorsement deals will mysteriously disappear. Anne has a type of power that she rarely uses but I can see being used if Kim says one negative word about her.

Oh I think you are giving Kim waaay too much credit. If Kayneee manages to get her an invite to the Met you bet her big ass she will show up! Nothing she loves more than showing the world just how high and mighty she is after all.

Also true. No matter what, I do think Kim and her Pimp Mommy are stupid enough to paint Anne as this “big mean bully” when Anne refuses to deign Kim with even so much as a hello. I know they think they will have enough clout to do so. Only problem is that it will deliciously backfire.

I second Anna Wintour’s Hell to the no. Sigh, I miss the Supermodel era of the late 80′s and early 90′s when all fashion magazines had actual models on the covers instead of actors and B-C list celebutantes.

Agreed! Taking a stand against the Kardashian plague is the only thing I applaud Wintour for. Wintour’s sullying of the Vogue brand by replacing models with actresses, politicians, and tone-deaf booty-shaking lip sync’ers is epidemic. The extreme airbrushing is also tacky and vulgar. Given what Wintour has turned the magazine into (a new money/old queen/bad taste exposition riding the back of pop culture), I don’t really understand the opposition to featuring Kardashians. Sadly, that would be par for the course.

I feel bad for bagging on a preggers chick but it’s Kim for Pete’s Sake, I just can’t help myself. I feel terrible for secretly loving the fact that she is getting So Huge- they were even mentioning it on KROQ yesterday.
I’ve always loved me some Ice Queen Wintour though, so I am also loving this snub. I can buy her not being on a Vogue cover, but so help me if she is at that Gala!!!! lol

Just curious — have other porn actresses had magazine covers? Are there other pron actresses invited to the Met Ball? I can see a lot of logic in drawing the line there. I know that Jenna Jameson kinda went mainstream, but of course she was supposed to be good at what she did. A porn star like Kim, and a crappy one at that, doesn’t seem like Vogue or Met Ball material.